Git – Ignore Files To Prevent Commit

Git is used for a lot of different projects. These projects may provide different types of files. Some times some of those files should not be committed in to the repository. For example after running a python application pyc files are created as compiled python files. Committing them are unnesecary.

Git Ignore File

To ignore files the patterns should be defined in a files named .gitignore file. .gitignore file by default resides in the root of the repository but can be used in sub directories too.